Zaanan
Mic 1:11, supposed to be the same as Zenan, Jos 15:37, a town in the plain country of Judah.
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.
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Zaanannim
Jos 19:33, a town in the north of Naphtali, near Kedesh and the foot of Anti-Lebanon, Jud 4:11.
Zabad
The name of four persons, 1Ch 2:36 7:21 2Ch 24:26Ezr 10:27.
Zabud
A son of Nathan the prophet, the confidential friend and adviser of king Solomon, probably having shared with him the instructions of the venerable prophet, 1Ki 4:5.
Zaccheus
Just, from the Hebrew Zaccai, Ne 7:14, a worthy tax-gatherer at Jericho, who in order to see Christ took a position in a sycamore-tree, by which He was about to pass. The Savior...
Zachariah
King of Israel succeeded his father Jeroboam 2, 773 B. C., and reigned six months. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against him, killed ...
Zacharias
1. A person mentioned in Mt 23:35Lu 11:51, and most probably designating the son of the high-priest Jehoida, or Barachias, who was stoned to death by order of king Joash for pub...
Zadok
The son of Ahitub, and father of Ahimaaz, high-priest of the Jews in the reigns of Saul and David. SeeABIATHAR.Others of this name are mentioned in 2Ki 15:331Ch 6:12Ezr 7:2Ne 3:...
Zalmon Or Salmon
Hebrew Tzalmon, a height in Samaria near Shechem, Jud 9:48, perhaps a part of mount Ebal; apparently the same that in Ps 68:14 is spoken of as covered with new-fallen snow.
Zalmunna And Zebah
Midianitish kings, defeated and slain by Gideon, Jud 8:5.
Zamzummim
A race of giants east of the Jordan, defeated by Chedorlaomer, Ge 14:5, and exterminated by the Ammonites, who possessed their territory until themselves subdued by Moses, De 2:...
Zanoah
The name of two towns in Judah, Jos 15:34,56. The inhabitants of one of them aided in rebuilding Jerusalem, Ne 3:13; 11:30.
Zaphnath-Paaneah
Savior of the world, an Egyptian name given by Pharaoh to Joseph, in commemoration of the salvation wrought through him, Ge 41:45.
Zared
SeeZERED.
Zarephath
Ob 1:20, a Phoenician seaport on the Mediterranean between Tyre and Zidon, usually subject to Tyre.During a famine in Israel, the prophet Elijah resided here, with a widow whose...
Zaretan
Called also Zartnah and Zarthan, 1Ki 4:12 7:46; a town on the west side of the Jordan, near Bethshean and north of Succoth. The reflux of the Jordan at the crossing of the Israe...
Zebedee
The husband of Salome, and father of James and John the apostles. He was a fisherman in comfortable circumstances, on the west shore of the sea of Galilee, and readily spared hi...
Zeboim
1. One of the four royal cities in the vale of Siddim, destroyed by fire from heaven. SeeSODOM. Eusebius and Jerome mention a town by this name in their day, on the western shor...
Zebul
A governor of the city of Shechem, who labored adroitly to preserve the city for Abimelech his master, the son of Gideon, Jud 9:1- 57.
Zebulun
1. OrZABULON, Re 7:8, the sixth son of Jacob and Leah, born in Mesopotamia, Ge 30:20. Moses gives us few particulars respecting him. His tribe was respectable for numbers, Nu 1:...
Zechariah
1. Son of Berechiah, and grandson of Iddo the priest; called the son of Iddo in Ezr 5:1 6:14, and his successor in the priesthood, Ne 12:4,16, perhaps because Berechiah was then...
Zedekiah
1. The twentieth and last king of Judah, son of Josiah and Hamutal, and uncle to Jeconiah his predecessor, 2Ki 24:17,19Jer 52:1. When Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem, he carried J...
Zelophehad
A descendant of Joseph, whose death in the wilderness, leaving five daughters and no sons, led to the establishment of a law that in such cases daughters should inherit the patr...
Zelotes
A Zealot; in general, one passionately and fanatically ardent in any cause. After the time of Christ the name Zelote was commonly applied to an association of private individual...
Zenas
A pious lawyer, and a friend of Paul, who, writing from Nicopolis during the last year of his life, commends him and Apollos, then at Crete on a journey, to the kind offices of ...
Zephaniah
1. A Kohathite, in the seventh generation from Levi, 1Ch 6:36.2. A priest, high in the sacred order, during the troublous times of king Zedekiah, who often communicated with Jer...
Zephath
A Canaanitish city afterwards called Hormah, one of the "uttermost cities of Judah southwards," afterwards assigned to Simeon, Jos 12:14 15:30 19:4. The name is supposed to be t...